One of PLEDJ’s founding ambitions is to bring academia closer to the community - to utilise scholarship for communities and inversely have communities better inform research and academic processes. Our primary approach to research aims to provide resources at personal, community and policy levels. We create and share research on the making and mobilization of local knowledges relating to social justice and conflict. We employ experimental methods framed by participatory action research to collaborate with local keepers as experts, incorporate their traditions as instrumental to social transformation, and promote indigenous pedagogies as essential to unsettling inequalities. Our research links community-based organisations and student training. This program produces training handbooks and creates knowledge sharing products.